As they walked down the street,participants (who were unaware they were part of a study)were approached by a confederate posing as a panhandler (a person who begs for money).The confederate asked the participant either for 75 cents or for whatever change he or she had handy.The researchers compared how much money participants gave across these two conditions.This is best characterized as which type of research design?

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This is a field experiment because it is being conducted in a naturalistic setting (on the street) and involves manipulating an independent variable (the amount asked for by the panhandler) to observe its effect on the dependent variable (amount of money given by participants). Natural experiment would be ruled out because the researchers are intentionally manipulating the independent variable, rather than just observing it in a natural setting. Correlational study and longitudinal study are also ruled out because they do not involve experimental manipulation of variables.

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